The Civil War 1861-1865


Student Created Civil War Image Collages
Civil War Image Collages- Best of Collection 2018 (Will go live once student collages are presented on May 21-22)

Civil War Image Collages- Best of Collection 2017 (link temporarily removed)

Civil War Image Collages- Best Of Collection 2016 (link temporarily removed)


Glory Alternatives Additional links and videos for exploring the story of the 54th Massachusetts Colored Regiment



The Civil War and Civil Rights- National Park Service Video


Intro to Ken Burns' Civil War




Civil War Photography Resources.
Library of Congress Collection of Civil War Photographs
Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (LOC)
Ken Burns Civil War Images Gallery
National Archives Civil War Pictures
National Parks Civil War 150 Year Anniversary Features
Civil War 150- History Channel Interactive Site
Civil War Soldiers Webquest.

Wartime President Lincoln
Lincoln Crossroads- Decision Making Interactive
Lincoln Timeline (Packed with links)
Dickinson House Divided Project- Massive Lincoln Documents and Civil War Era Database.
Understanding Lincoln Course Storify Essays
With Malice toward None- LOC Exhibit
First Inaugural Address
Gettysburg Address
Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln Classroom (Collection of Articles and more on Lincoln)
Spielberg's Lincoln- Unofficial Teacher's Guide (Dickinson House Divided Project)
Featurette on the Making of Lincoln... Explores many, many wonderful details.



Causes of the Civil War through Secession
Interactive North v. South Map

Fort Sumter
PBS Video- Fort Sumter
Sound Smart about Fort Sumter Video
Fort Sumter Animated Map- Civil War Trust
Crisis at Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter National Park Site
Whatever Happened to Fort Pickens

Bull Run to Antietam
Anaconda Plan
Bull Run
Antietam National Battlefield Park

National Park Service on Battle Reenactments


Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Digital Classroom (Dickinson)
National Archives Exhibit
Full Text of the Proclamation

Glory and the 54th Massachuetts
Glory- Full Version

54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry
Battle of Fort Wagner- Civil War Trust
54th Massachusetts- Mass Historical Society Exhibit
U.S. Archives- 54th Mass Casualty List
Written in Glory- Letters from Soldiers of the 54th
Section 27, Arlington National Cemetery- (1500 Civil Colored Troops, including some from the 54th Mass are buried in this section)
Henry Spradley-Citizen: A Great Student Documentary of his research into the legacy of a Union Colored Troop from his college town of Carlisle, PA.


Antietam to Gettysburg and Vicksburg
Fredericksburg
Gettysburg
Vicksburg

Sherman's March to the Sea Through Appomattox
Sherman's March- History Channel Interactive

Civil War Medicine, Prisons, Homefront (EHL Civil War Connections)

Andersonville and Other Civil War POW Camps
Civil War Prisons- Index to Pages about all the Camps- Northern and Southern
Andersonville- National Parks Site
Andersonville Timeline
Trial of Captain Henry Wirz
General Civil War Resources
Brainpop Civil War Video
Civil War Battle Summaries
PBS Ken Burns Civil War Companion Site
Library of Congress Timeline of the Civil War
History Place Timeline of the Civil War
Modern History Sourcebook Civil War Primary Source Documents
U.S. Civil War.com
Civil War Home.com
Harper's Weekly Civil War Features
Civilwar.org (Extensive Resources- Images and Animated Maps to search by battle)
Civil War Interactive- "Disunion" Features from the New York Times

A Confederate Girl's Diary. The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan.